>I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the >INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and >the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox >folder is empty.
...snip...
2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your email data. The data structure managed by your email program is complicated. Your antivirus program hacked at it with no knowledge of how these files are managed. It deleted the contents of a mail file, but may not have deleted the file itself and it certainly did not adjust the index file to match. So the email program's index is pointing to a file that is empty or not there. Hence a ghost file.

This is the best argument I've seen for avoiding Apple's Mail program--the data structure is complicated, as in OE. It's not so complicated in Mozilla's Thunderbird, so fewer things are likely to go wrong. I dumped Apple Mail ages ago after using it for only a couple of weeks. Went back and tried it again last week and dumped it again.

Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever? Do you know where the preference/data files are located?

Betty


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